Enable SSH For ESXi
A great article on how to enable SSH for ESXi, which if you didn’t already know does not have a Service Console to speak of, but is built on the BusyBox distribution. However, it is still possible to remote manage it using SSH with a tweak here and there.
Here’s the great video that shows you how to do it step by step, but check out the rest of the article for more detail:
Tags: ESXi, Service Console
July 31st, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Actually busybox is not a distribution, but a program that combines many different standard Unix binaries into one binary. In order to run e.g. “ls” using busybox, you have to create a symbolic link named “ls” to the busybox binary and then exeute that. busybox is used in many embedded systems because of it’s small size.
So ESX3i still contains a service console, just that it’s no longer based on RedHat but either on one of the mini-distributions like DSL or one that VMware created on their own.
November 9th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Nice to see that some one made a video .:)
December 8th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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